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Patent JP-2009115329-A (JP)
Title: Hot-water supply heating device
Inventor: SANO HIDEYUKI
IPC: F24D3/08
Filed: 2007-11-01
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve heat efficiency with a simple constitution, to reduce costs, and to properly perform heat collecting processing by controlling heat collection according to weather and the like with respect to a hot-water supply heating device heating a heat medium as a heat source by utilizing solar heat.  <P>SOLUTION: This hot-water supply heating device 2 utilizing solar heat as a heating source, includes a first heat exchanger (heat exchanger 12) for heating clean water flowing in a clean water channel (hot water supply pipe conduit 74) by heat exchange with the heat medium 4, a second heat exchanger (heat exchanger 20 for bath) heating the bathtub water flowing in a bathtub water channel by heat exchange with the heat medium, heating loads (high-temperature terminal 14, low-temperature terminal 16) radiating heat of the heat medium, a first heating means for heating the heat medium by heat exchange between the solar heat and the heat medium, and a heat medium circulation passage (hot-water supply preheating circuit 60, heating circuit 62, reheating preheating circuit 64) for circulating the heat medium to the first heat exchanger, the second heat exchanger and/or the heating load by driving a circulation pump 32.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009116479-A (JP)
Title: Voice guide system for printed matter
Inventor: YOSOKU TOYOICHI
IPC: G10L13/02
Filed: 2007-11-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a practical voice guide system for outputting information corresponding to the touched region with a voice by touching a character region or an image region printed on a printed matter with an operation pen, and for voice-outputting the selection of a word to be output with a voice corresponding to content expressed with Braille.  <P>SOLUTION: This voice guide system of a printed matter, in which minutely scaled microcode symbols acquired by encoding voice information corresponding to the character region or the image region are printed on a character region or an image region printed on a printed matter, is configured of an operation pen having a recognition means for recognizing the code symbols and a voice output means for outputting information corresponding to the code symbols with a voice based on the code symbols recognized by the recognition means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009118303-A (JP)
Title: Image encoding apparatus, image encoding method, image decoding apparatus, and image decoding method
Inventor: MURAKAMI TOMOKAZU
IPC: H04N19/593
Filed: 2007-11-08
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration in image quality while reducing a code amount in image encoding using multiple resolution analysis.  <P>SOLUTION: An interpolation processing unit 104 selects a pixel to be processed and performs interpolation prediction thereon in a plurality of directions (horizontal direction, vertical direction). A direction selecting unit 105 selects an interpolation prediction value in a direction where an interpolation error is smaller. A pixel separating unit 106 separates, as a high frequency component, a difference between the interpolation prediction value and a pixel value of the pixel to be processed. Furthermore, an interpolation processing unit 107 selects a pixel to be processed from among pixels that are not defined as an object to be processed, and performs interpolation prediction thereon in a plurality of directions (oblique direction to right, oblique direction to left). A direction selecting unit 108 and a pixel separating unit 109 select an interpolation prediction value and separate a high frequency component of the target pixel similarly. A conversion/quantization unit 110 converts the separated high frequency component into encoded data.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009122813-A (JP)
Title: Character size determination device and character size determination method
Inventor: OI TOSHISUKE
IPC: G06K9/20
Filed: 2007-11-13
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a character size determination device and a character size determination method, for more accurately automatically determining character size of a character printed on a document.  <P>SOLUTION: While an edge in a main scanning direction of image data obtained by scanning the document is detected, the number of the edges is accumulated, an area wherein the edges are gathered in a sub-scanning direction is extracted as a character string candidate, and its character point number is estimated (S200-S250). While an edge in the sub-scanning direction of the extracted character string candidate is detected, the number of the edges is accumulated, an area wherein the edges are gathered in the main scanning direction is extracted as a character candidate, and the character point number is estimated (S260-S300). When the character candidate wherein the character point number and the minimum number of the character points of the character string candidate accord among the respective extracted character candidates is present, the according number of the character points is set to a character point number P (S310, S320). Thereby, because determining the character point number P by use of the character having nearly square width, the determination of the character point number can be more accurately performed.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008126071-A (JP)
Title: Method and apparatus for suppressing tagging material in prepless ct colonography
Inventor: SIROHEY SAAD AHMED
IPC: A61B6/03
Filed: 2007-11-14
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for suppressing a tagging material in a prepless CT colonography.  <P>SOLUTION: The method is provided for suppressing a tagging material (for example, 306 or 406) in prepless CT colonography. The method includes the step (55) of identifying and segmenting a plurality of density classes, intensity classes or both within a volumetric medical image of a patient including a volume of the patient's colon (302, 402 or 502) and the step (56) of classifying the volume of the patient's colon into a plurality of types on the basis of the identified and segmented density classes, intensity classes or both. The method further includes the step (57) of subtracting, suppressing or leaving the tagged material in the image in accordance with the type classifications to produce a resulting image (304, 404 or 504) and the step (58) of visualizing the resulting image.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008066750-A (JP)
Title: Light-emitting diode lamp and light-emitting diode display device
Inventor: TAKASUGI KEIJI
IPC: H01L33/60
Filed: 2007-11-16
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a light-emitting lamp and light-emitting diode display device, which prevent a false recognition due to incident light from the outside such as a reflected light without causing no display nonuniformity.  <P>SOLUTION: In the light-emitting diode lamp, the upper side curved surface 5A in the upper side part 5 of a convex lens 3 has a shape different from that of the upper side curved surface 6A in the upper side part 6 and refracts a light emitted by the light-emitting diode chip 2 larger than the upper side curved surface 6A. Thus, even when outer light enters, it is avoided that the outer light is reflected to the front surface, so that a false recognition is prevented. Since an interface S1 between the upper side part 5 and lower side part 6 of the convex lens 3 is located on the upper side terminal face 2A of the light-emitting diode chip 2, an outgoing light is prevented from concentrating on the interface S1, and a lopsided light-emitting peak is prevented from being caused on the front surface.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009130557-A (JP)
Title: Image display device
Inventor: HAMADA KOICHI
IPC: H04N7/01
Filed: 2007-11-22
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To display a higher-definition image in an image display device.  <P>SOLUTION: The image display device includes: an input section for inputting an input image; an image resolution increasing section for improving the resolution of a video signal inputted into the input section; an image processing section for performing image processing to the video signal of which resolution has been increased by the image resolution increasing section; and a display section for displaying an image after the image processing of the image processing section. The image processing section performs the-number-of-pixels reduction processing for reducing the number of pixels in the video signal, and low-pass filtering differing according to the amount of movement of an object included in the video signal inputted into the input section. When the amount of movement of the object included in the video signal inputted into the input section corresponds to the amount of movement other than an integral multiple of one pixel of the display section, a cutoff frequency in low-pass filtering is set to be higher than that when the amount of movement of the object included in the video signal inputted into the input section corresponds to an integral multiple of one pixel at the display section.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008138879-A (JP)
Title: Torque converter
Inventor: UHLER ADAM
IPC: F16H45/02
Filed: 2007-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a torque converter having simplified and inexpensive construction.  <P>SOLUTION: The torque converter comprises a turbine 116, an output shaft 188, and a damper 122, the damper joining at least one cover plate 150 to the turbine 116 in the radial direction. Herein, a flange 186 is provided to be driven by the damper 122, and it is joined to the output shaft 188 in a relatively non-turnable manner. The flange 186 has a face 196 extending to the axial direction for centering the cover plate 150.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009127161-A (JP)
Title: Method for producing polyester yarn
Inventor: YOSHIHARA JUNICHIRO
IPC: D01D5/24
Filed: 2007-11-27
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for stably producing a polyester yarn having a single fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex or more and 2.0 dtex or less or a polyester fiber having a hollowness of 10% or more and 40% or less, especially a hollow cross-sectional yarn having decreased hollowness variation.  <P>SOLUTION: The method for producing a polyester yarn 8 includes the melt-spinning of a single polymer having a melt viscosity of 0.65 or more and 0.80 or less by slowly cooling the yarn with a cylindrical cooling device 1 by an inward-directing cooling air flow blown from outer circumferential direction under conditions satisfying the following requirements (a) to (d) at the same time. (a) the distance L between the spinneret face and the cool starting position is 20 mm≤L≤40 mm; (b) the slowly cooling air flow temperature Ta at the cool starting position is 160°C≤Ta≤220°C; (c) the spinning temperature Tb is 290°C≤Tb≤310°C; and (d) the spinning speed V is 2,000 m/min≤V≤4,000 m/min.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009134421-A (JP)
Title: Biometric authentication system and biometric authentication method
Inventor: TOKUTOME TETSUO
IPC: B60R25/01
Filed: 2007-11-29
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a biometric authentication system which has excellent recovery property when data are destroyed.  <P>SOLUTION: The biometrics authentication system includes: a biometric authentication device 1 equipped with a reading means 8 for reading biological information; a first storage means 9 for storing the biological information; and a personal identification means 12 for performing personal identification by comparing the biological information read by the reading means 8 with the biological information stored in the first storage means; a second storage means 16 for storing the same biological information as the biological information stored in the first storage means 9; a storage detection means 12 for detecting whether or not the biological information is stored in the first storage means 9; and a copying means 12 for, when the biological information is not detected by the storage detection means 12, executing copying processing to copy the biological information stored in the second storage means 16 to the first storage means 9.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009132492-A (JP)
Title: Auxiliary rail
Inventor: SAKO HIROKAZU
IPC: B65G1/04
Filed: 2007-11-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an auxiliary rail capable of suppressing the noise, vibrations and the slip of wheels, and reducing labor for the maintenance of a facility when a moving body for conveyance travels on the rail.  <P>SOLUTION: A covering material 25 for covering an upper surface of a base material 24 of an auxiliary rail 23 is provided on the base material. The covering material 25 is formed of a resin material. The auxiliary rail 23 is attachably/detachably fitted to a metallic body rail 22. The auxiliary rail 22 is installed so that a stacker crane travels thereon, and wheels 14 of the stacker crane travel on a traveling part 25a of the covering material 25.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009135332-A (JP)
Title: Power generation array for photoelectric conversion device, photoelectric conversion device, and manufacturing method of them
Inventor: MUROZONO MIKIO
IPC: H01L31/042
Filed: 2007-11-30
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a power generation unit which is effective in constituting inexpensively a photoelectric conversion device having a first spherical semiconductor and a plurality of photoelectric converting elements covering it except a portion thereof, a one-polarity-side first conductor layer supporting the elements, other-polarity-side second conductor layers, and an electric insulating layer for both the conductor layers.  <P>SOLUTION: The power generation array is constituted by providing a plurality of element support portions supporting many photoelectric converting elements to the first conductor layer at intervals and connecting second conductor layers independent by the element support portions. The power generation array is divided into an arbitrary number which is larger than one, and thus power generation units are manufactured which have arbitrary specifications adaptive to photoelectric conversion devices having various specifications. A power generation unit alone or a plurality of power generation units are connected in series to simplify a process of interconnecting power generation units in parallel.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2008103350-A (JP)
Title: Negative electrode material for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, manufacturing method of same negative electrode material, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batttery using same negative electrode material
Inventor: NITTA YOSHIAKI
IPC: H01M10/0525
Filed: 2007-12-03
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent acicular metal lithium from precipitating on a surface of a negative electrode, and enhance electrochemical activity in order to increase capacity.  <P>SOLUTION: The nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a negative electrode 9 having bond of silicon with nitrogen which lithium can be electrochemically inserted into and removed from, and having a silicon nitride compound as an active material containing carbon formed by pyrolytically decomposing silazane compounds belonging to inorganic polymer by heating treatment at 500-700°C, a positive electrode 8 having a lithium compound as an active material, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. Thereby, the electrochemical activity in the negative electrode 9 is enhanced to increase the capacity, and the acicular metal lithium does not precipitate on the surface of the negative electrode 9.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009136723-A (JP)
Title: Chlorine dioxide water generating/injecting device
Inventor: TAKIMOTO MASATERU
IPC: C02F1/76
Filed: 2007-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chlorine dioxide water generating/injecting device where residual chlorine concentration control in each water facility or an additional operation for insufficient chlorine dioxide can be controlled collectively by one device, and the control can be easily performed.  <P>SOLUTION: The chlorine dioxide water generating/injecting device comprises: an injection quantity setting means where the injection quantity of the chlorine dioxide water per activity day and operating time band in each water facility An is set; a concentration setting means where the concentration of the chlorine dioxide water to be generated is set; a generation controlling means where the quantities of the material and water to be fed to a reaction generator are decided based on residual quantity data from a storage tank and set concentration data from the concentration setting means, so as to control the generation of the chlorine dioxide; and a pump controlling means where the control of an injection pump in each water facility An is performed based on injection data from the injection quantity setting means.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009137363-A (JP)
Title: Interior parts
Inventor: SAKUMA SUMIYUKI
IPC: B60N3/02
Filed: 2007-12-04
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an interior parts capable of ensuring the rigidity of an engagement part of a fitting parts and suppressing occurrence of any play.  <P>SOLUTION: An assist grip 20 as an interior parts comprises a grip body 21 arranged on the indoor side RA of a body panel 11, and an attachment 30 for holding the grip body 21 by the body panel 11. In other words, a cap 60 of the attachment 30 is inserted in a panel hole 11C, a claw 62B of a cap cover 62 is engaged with the body panel 11, an opening part 61A of the cap body 61 is pressed against a circumferential edge of the panel hole 11C by a slide pin 70, and the grip body 21 is held by the body panel 11 through the attachment 30. The cap body 61 is formed of a material (a synthetic resin) having the rigidity lower than that of the body panel 11, and the cap cover 62 is formed of a material (a metal) having the rigidity higher than that of the cap body 61.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009141188-A (JP)
Title: Integrated semiconductor optical device
Inventor: YAMATOYA TAKESHI
IPC: H01S5/026
Filed: 2007-12-07
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain an integrated semiconductor optical device that can reduce contact resistance while maintaining excellent surface morphology.  <P>SOLUTION: A semiconductor laser 1 (a first semiconductor optical device) and an optical modulator 2 (a second semiconductor optical device) are integrated on an identical n-type InP substrate 3 (InP substrate). The semiconductor laser 1 and the optical modulator 2 are joined by butting them together. The semiconductor laser 1 and the optical modulator 2 have Be-doped p-type InGaAs contact layer 14. The p-type InGaAs contact layer 14 has: a Be-doping concentration of ≥7×10<SP>18</SP>cm<SP>-3</SP>; and a thickness of <300 nm.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009141863-A (JP)
Title: Load driving circuit
Inventor: YAMADA SACHIYO
IPC: H01L33/00
Filed: 2007-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a load driving circuit which performs ON/OFF control of a load current flowing through a load and control of setting the level value of the load current at the same time.  <P>SOLUTION: The load driving circuit for performing ON/OFF control of a load current flowing through a load and control of setting the level value of the load current includes a current control circuit which includes an input terminal and performs the ON/OFF control and the level value setting control at the same time on the basis of a burst wave signal supplied to the input terminal.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009141266-A (JP)
Title: Semiconductor device
Inventor: ONO ATSUKI
IPC: H01L21/82
Filed: 2007-12-10
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a short circuit when an electric fuse is cut.  <P>SOLUTION: The semiconductor device 100 includes: the electric fuse 200 which is formed on a semiconductor substrate (not illustrated) and includes first wiring 122 and second wiring 134 formed in different layers respectively, and a via 128 provided between the first wiring 122 and the second wiring 134, connected to one end portion of the second wiring 134 and connected to the first wiring 122; and a guard wiring portion 160 formed in the same layer with the second wiring 134 and enclosing the periphery of the one end portion of the second wiring 134. In plane view, the second wiring 134 is formed extending in a direction from the other end to the one end, and the guard wiring portion 160 is formed enclosing three peripheral sides of the one end portion with the one end portion of the second wiring 134 as a center.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009145975-A (JP)
Title: Printing control system
Inventor: KATO HIROSHI
IPC: B41J29/38
Filed: 2007-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem, wherein correct discrimination of a sheet brand cannot be carried out, since the final character is cut off, when the number of characters of a sheet name is large.  <P>SOLUTION: This print control system is provided with a sheet name generation means for generating a new sheet name, by adding selected attribute information to the sheet name.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009145998-A (JP)
Title: Print control apparatus, print control method, and print control program
Inventor: TOMITA MAKOTO
IPC: G06F3/12
Filed: 2007-12-11
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a print control apparatus for improving the convenience of a user in the case of outputting print data from an application to a printer.  <P>SOLUTION: This print control apparatus includes: a storage means configured to store print attributes and print settings corresponding to the print attributes in association with each other; a search means configured to search the storage means for a print attribute corresponding to the print attribute of document data in accordance with an instruction to print the document data; and a generation means configured to, when the corresponding print attribute is detected, set a print setting corresponding to the print attribute as the print setting of the document data and generate print data to be output to the print device, and when no corresponding print attribute can be detected, accept the input of the print setting of the document data and generate print data using the accepted print setting.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
Patent JP-2009147560-A (JP)
Title: Coil antenna and non-contact information medium
Inventor: FUKUSHIMA KIYOTAKA
IPC: H01Q9/27
Filed: 2007-12-12
Abstract: <P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a coil antenna capable of reducing mutual effects even when a mutual inductance is relatively small and overlapped by making the coil antenna available in a thin size and making an adjustment to increase a ratio of the self inductance and the mutual inductance.  <P>SOLUTION: Winding patterns 14 are formed by using a conductor 16 forming a main wiring pattern 12 without using parts, such as a chip coil. This allows a product using the coil antenna 10 to be thin and flexible. Moreover, wiring patterns are devised so that they are distributed to the main wiring pattern 12 to make a loop shape and the winding patterns 14 are formed by the conductor 16 with a sufficiently small winding shape as compared with the main wiring pattern 12. Thus, the ratio of the self inductance and the mutual inductance can be effectively adjusted to increase and the mutual inductance can be relatively reduced.  <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT